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The CERT® Oracle® Secure Coding Standard for Java™
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The CERT® Oracle® Secure Coding Standard for Java™

by Fred Long, Dhruv Mohindra, Robert C. Seacord, Dean F. Sutherland, David Svoboda
September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
744 pages
14h 50m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 12. Thread Pools (TPS)

Rules

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Risk Assessment Summary

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TPS00-J. Use thread pools to enable graceful degradation of service during traffic bursts

Many programs must address the problem of handling a series of incoming requests. One simple concurrency strategy is the thread-per-message design pattern, which uses a new thread for each request [Lea 2000a]. This pattern is generally preferred over sequential executions of time-consuming, I/O-bound, session-based, or isolated tasks.

However, the pattern also introduces overheads not seen in sequential ...

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